Asian History
Asian history is as distinct as the histories of several peripheral coastal regions: East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, which are linked by the interior mass of the Central Asian steppes.
This coastal periphery has become home to some of the world’s earliest known civilizations who developed the fertile river valleys around them. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Huanghe shared many similarities in terms of civilization-exchanging technologies and ideas such as mathematics and the wheel.
Other innovations, such as writing, seem to have been developed individually in each area. Cities, states, and empires developed in these lowlands.